Corn-planter



'1.- HAINES.

CORN PLANTER.

(No Model.)

No. 360,345. Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAIAH HAINES, OF PORTER, CASS COUNTY, MICHIGAN.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION -forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,345, dated March 29, 1887.

Application lerl January 31,1887. Serial No. 226,04l. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, IsAIAH HAINEs, residing in the township of Porter, in the county of Cass, State of Michigan, United States, have invented a new and useful Machine for Planting Corn and other Seeds, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part hereof.

Hy invention relates to that class of corn and seed planters worked wholl y by hand.

The objects oi" my improvement are, first, to provide a corn and seed planter which will plant the seed at any required depth in the ground; second, to provide a planter in the use of which the seed may be hand-dropped, thereby insuring any given number of grains to the hill; third,to attain the objects set forth above without the use of ahoe. l attain these objects by the mechanism represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective,view and Fig.- 2 is a sectional View.

My invention consists of a wedgeshaped box or hopper, represented and illustrated in annexed drawings.

A represents a hand-hold in triangular side, by which the machine is carried when in use;

D, a movable quadrilateral side secured in its place by screws on opposite sides at C and by spring E, as shown in Fig. 2; B, an iron shoe or plating on bottom of machine; F, an open hopper.

Fig. 1 shows machine (closed ready to receive seed) as plunged into the ground.

Fig. 2 shows machine (open as drawn from the ground) depositing seed.

In use the machine is taken in the hand by hand-hold A, the seed dropped into the hopper, and the shoe plunged into the ground, the thumb pressed on the top of side D, causing machine to open at the bottom and drop seed. As the machine is raised out of the ground the thumb is removed from side D and the machine closed by spring E.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent 1s The hopper or wedgeshaped boX,With handhold A, moyable side D acting on screws C, spring E, and theshoe or plating B, all as substantially. set forth and described.

ISAIAH HATNES.

\Vitnesscs:

WV. W'. W'ILsoN, HORACE H. MosIER. 

